Annotations and Hallucinations

Since I looked back then on the little I had done, I will look back now, twenty pages into Annotations and Elucidations. I feel the work is going well. Responding to each old page with a new page is a challenge I enjoy; that there are so many pages ahead of me, I might find daunting, were it not that I seem born to create such preposterous tasks for myself. And if I live long enough to make it through all of them, there’s the risk I will go on to annotate and elucidate Annotations and Elucidations — which no one will notice, for by then I will have killed off or chased away the few readers I have. That section I might call Annotations and Hallucinations. In the meantime, I’m aware that anything can happen to prevent me from carrying on: illness, loss, further mental decline, poverty, homelessness, great strife in the land. I take nothing, and no one, for granted, including you. Thank you.

[ 1973 ]